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Fast Forward Jewish High School Football Teams Battle in ‘Bagel Bowl’
Two West Coast Jewish high school football teams squared off in a game dubbed the Bagel Bowl. For what most likely was a football first, two West Coast 11-player high school squads from Jewish schools, the San Diego Jewish Academy Lions in its third year of full contact and the Milken Community High School Wildcats…
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Fast Forward Protesters Disrupt Israel Philharmonic in London
Anti-Israel protesters disrupted a live BBC broadcast of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra playing in London. Hecklers in the audience shouted during Thursday night’s appearance by the orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall. BBC’s Radio 3 interrupted its broadcast during the heckling and later resumed it, only to suspend the broadcast after more shouting. The orchestra…
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Fast Forward Memorial to Jews Killed by Neighbors Is Vandalized in Poland
Vandals have defaced the monument in the eastern Polish town of Jedwabne that commemorates the hundreds of Jews burned alive in a barn there by their Polish neighbors in July 1941. A decade ago, the publication of Jan T. Gross’s book about the massacre, “Neighbors,” prompted a national debate on Poland’s role in the Holocaust….
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Fast Forward Boy Hurt by Foul Ball Gets Visit From Hitter
Florida Marlins’ third baseman Greg Dobbs visited a New York hospital to see the boy he injured with his foul ball. Eli Shalomoff, 12, told Dobbs, who stopped Tuesday at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens on his way to the Marlins-Mets game that night, that he likes hockey more than baseball is more of a Yankees…
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Fast Forward Perry’s Surge Has GOP Jews Questioning Romney
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s surge to the front of the GOP presidential pack has Jewish Republicans reckoning with a field that suddenly looks much different than it did just a few weeks ago. According to the latest Gallup poll, 29 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents favor Perry, with 17 percent supporting former Massachusetts Gov….
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Fast Forward ADL Demands Calif. Councilwoman Quit Over Hitler Remarks
A councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif., should resign after she made a “half-hearted” apology to a Jewish businessman that she had compared to Hitler, the Anti-Defamation League said. Claudia Alvarez, the council’s mayor pro tem, invoked Hitler last week during a debate on a tax for downtown property owners in comments directed at Irving Chase,…
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Fast Forward British Group Want Madam Tussauds To Change Wax Hitler Statue
A Jewish organization in Britain has called on Madame Tussauds to make its wax replica of Hitler look more defeated. The UK Zionist Federation told the Evening Standard that making Hitler look more vulnerable and not “upright” could prevent guests from posing next to the figure making the “Sieg Heil” salute. “I have no problem…
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Fast Forward Petition for Alan Gross’ Freedom Gains Support
An online petition to free the Jewish American contractor Alan Gross garnered almost 1,000 signatures in its first day. The petition launched Monday appeals to Cuba’s leadership to release Gross on humanitarian grounds before the Jewish High Holidays begin with Rosh HaShanah on Sept. 29. Gross, 62, is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba…
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